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bullcrap.
Rumsfeld to Cheney to Libby to Rove to Novak to the Enemies of the Republic (via Novak's newspaper column), to Armitage to Ford Jr., to come back round to supposedly be from Armitage to Rumsfeld, Cheney, Libby and Rove FROM NOVAK.
Right.
Who got Armitage to say this? Top of the loop: Rumsfeld or Cheney.
Cover up of a cover up of a cover up. What really happened July 14-22, 2003:
July 14, 2003: Plame outed (by Novak).
July 18, 2003: David Kelly (Brits chief WMD expert, who had been whistleblowing anonymously to the BBC, about the "sexed up" pre-war WMD intel, as of May 22) found dead, under highly suspicious circumstances; his office and computers were searched.
July 22, 2003: The entire WMD counter-proliferation program headed by Plame--Brewster-Jennings--outed (also by Novak), putting all of its covert agents/contacts at risk of getting killed, and disabling all WMD counter-proliferation projects.
Why? My guess: Bushite/Blairite plot to PLANT nukes in Iraq, to be "found" by the US troops who were "hunting" for the WMDs that everybody knew weren't there (accompanied by Judith Miller, friend of David Kelly--to whom Kelly wrote one of his last emails, on the day he died, in which he expressed concern about the "many dark actors playing games.") The plot was foiled by someone in the BJ network. Kelly found out about it (or aided the foiling in some way). It changed his mind about the war (which he had supported), and he started whistleblowing. He was assassinated (very likely not suicide) because of what he knew and had not yet told the public. Blair advised of this July 7, a day before Wilson's article was published (July 6). Hutton report says Blair told on July 7 (as the result of interrogations of Kelly at a "safe house") that Kelly "could say some uncomfortable things." Not had said. COULD say.
There were TWO outings, not just one. The first, of Plame, four days before Kelly's death; the second, of Brewster-Jennings, four days after his death. If hostile governments had not connected the dots between Plame and the CIA covert agents/contacts monitoring WMDs within their borders by the Plame outing, they were surely apprised of it by the Brewster-Jennings outing, and could more easily identify and target anyone who had dealt with B/J. Kelly may have BEEN one of those agents/contacts. (He spent considerable time in the US with a Pentagon spy named Mai Pederson. He was also an experienced hand at Iraq WMDs, and a highly reputed scientist and "tough guy" WMD negotiator--in an excellent position to have uncovered such a Bushite WMD plot.)
A theory, yes. But a pretty good one. Good working hypothesis. Holds up well as new facts emerge. IF Armitage said this--that he disclosed Plame's identity to Novak, inadvertently, as gossip (bearing in mind that it's hearsay), then he, too, may be involved in the bad, bad shit that is being covered up, re: the Plame/BJ outings. Treason and murder. It is the BREWSTER-JENNINGS outing that is the important one, in unraveling this snakepit. Novak was told by the CIA NOT to disclose Plame's identity. He did it anyway. Then he WENT ON to out the entire front company and network! Why? Who told him to do that, and who told him that he could get away with it?
And I don't think it was Karl Rove. Rove would not take on the CIA on his own initiative--too cowardly--and he did not have the authority anyway. This had to have come from Bush, Cheney or Rumsfeld. Fitzgerald seems to think it was Cheney, although my money's on Rumsfeld. Rove may have spoken to Novak, but he cannot have been the mastermind. And Novak wouldn't have done it without protection either--protection that Rove was not capable of providing on his own. Armitage may have been a conduit, like Libby, Rove and Novak--backfilling now with yet another cover up tale--all guilty, but not the mastermind, the one with the biggest interest in destroying the CIA's counter-proliferation program. Take your pick: Cheney or Rumsfeld. Or maybe both. I tend to think that Cheney's scribblings on the Wilson article news clipping were after-the-fact, and part of the cover up--to make it look more like political revenge against Wilson, and less like treason.
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